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Welcome to today's thread - 2025 #CrossBorderRail Finale Day 30 - 16 July - Suceava - Gura Putnei - Gălănești - Dornești - Suceava

Today's new borders:
Ulma 🇷🇴 - Ruska 🇺🇦
Vicsani 🇷🇴 - Vadul Siret 🇺🇦

Borders map, inc. borders re-crossed:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#11/47.8915/25.5957

Today's trains on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-finale_1163738#11/47.8219/25.7674

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Jon Worth Jul 16

Trains have not crossed at Ruska for more than a century. Siret still has an active railway, also with passenger trains until recently, but no longer. And from memory from 2019 the infrastructure is in a poor state. The aim: establish if passenger trains would work there!

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Jon Worth Jul 16

Here's today's #CrossBorderRail music track

Es fährt ein Zug nach Nirgendwo
Christian Anders

Wrong language here, but the title is perfect for this day of the project!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGxpkDdJ-CU

Christian Anders - Es fährt ein Zug nach Nirgendwo (2010)

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Jon Worth Jul 16

#CrossBorderRail Finale Train 133 of 166
R 5625
08:15 Suceava - Gura Putnei 10:05
CFR Călători

Train type: Siemens Desiro DMU, 2 short carriages
⛽️
🚲: ✅ (somehow, there are some)
🦽: ⛔️ (theoretically step free, but doors broken)
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂
🧽: ☹️ (broken windows, air conditioning leaking water, broken doors)

🎫 Interrail: 🙂 (accepted)

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Jon Worth Jul 16

R 5625
08:15 Suceava - Gura Putnei 10:05

Distance: 65.8km
Average speed: 36km/h

14 stops:
Suceava Nord
Dărmănești
Milișăuți
Țibeni hc
Dornești
Rădăuți Gara Mică h
Rădăuți
Horodnic hc
Gălănești
Vicov Motel
Vicovu de Jos hc
Vicovu de Sus hc
Bivolăria hc
Gura Putnei

This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2025-finale_1163738#12/47.7933/25.9451

#CrossBorderRail 2025 Finale

The final big #CrossBorderRail tour - to the eastern borders of the EU, and missing intra-EU borders. In June-July 2025. Each day of the project is a Layer in the map - these should be displayed by default, or if not click the three layered diamonds icon "Open browser" to the left side of the map. The icons are all for borders, roughly coloured to differentiate the borders. A cross through a track means NO TRAINS CAN RUN. A cross through trains but not track means TRAINS CAN RUN BUT NO PASSENGER TRAINS. And TRAIN AND TRACK (no crosses) means there is a passenger service.

uMap

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Jon Worth Jul 16

Fascinating conversation with a Ukrainian cycle tourist here on the train from Suceava. She’s cycling from Dornești along what looks like a hellish road via Siret back to Romania.

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Jon Worth Jul 16

This is a typical CFR we don’t give a **** service

Water is leaking out of the air conditioning somewhere - there’s a puddle on one of the overhead racks, and if the train shakes passengers get a shower

Staff could mop it up but don’t

Window panes are cracked. Doors broken.

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Jon Worth Jul 16

I’m going to get wet. Again. 😡

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Jon Worth Jul 16

Here’s today‘s intro video https://peertube.netzbegruenung.de/w/1hfrSYR8jaywp5qWb7Dmgb

Because of impending thunderstorms I might have to alter the schedule a bit though

#CrossBorderRail live stream - 7/14/2025, 4:50:54 AM

PeerTube

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Jon Worth Jul 16

Aaagggh

Too rainy and muddy to cycle

Too rainy for the drone

And the only place I could walk… there are half a dozen stray dogs

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Jon Worth Jul 16

Managed to get the drone up in a gap in the rain

Here’s the former rail bridge just past Gura Putnei on the former line to Ruska (today‘s Ukraine)

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波鉄 (Hatetsu)

@jon Obligatory reminder of the fun time we had in January finding out the border was two borders XD

https://mastodon.com.pl/@HaTetsu/113817052885581381
https://gruene.social/@jon/113817196488088750

波鉄 (Hatetsu) (@HaTetsu@mastodon.com.pl)

@jon@gruene.social Hmmm, apparently it was even a bit longer than that (also for everyone's reference): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahnstrecke_Brodina%E2%80%93Izvoarele_Sucevei (And, well, perhaps it's more accurate to say it's a would-have-been #CrossBorderRail line)

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